Pluto: Dwarf Planet

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19. Pluto is no longer considered a planet, and is considered a dwarf planet because it has not “cleared the neighborhood around its orbit. This saying pretty much means that Pluto has gained control of the gravity around it. So astronomers made a name for these planets known as the dwarf planets, to show that it is a planet that continues to orbit the sun, but it hasn’t cleared the neighborhood.
20. When meteoroids enter Earth’s atmosphere, they disintegrate before they hit the ground. When a meteoroid does hit Earth’s surface, those are called meteorites.
21. The Nebular theory states that the solar system was a rotating disk of gas and dust. As the speed started to increase, the middle of the disk began to flatten. And as the middle started

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